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“What’s this family crap you need to talk to me about?” Dad asks

I perch on the edge of the couch and laceto do “It’s so Calla said the last time I went to visit her”

Dad sighs and rubs his teirl does is cause problems”

“Look, Dad, I know She’s bitter and hateful, I get that But there was so true What’s different about me and her?”

“Jesus fucking Christ, I knew this shit was going to come back and bite me in the ass As much as I tried to keep this shit under wraps, the past never stays where it belongs”

My sto?”

“For once, no” He wipes his lips with his hands “See, this is the shit that drives irls are like a riddle I can’t find the answers to The horth of the room “This is why I let yourI knew it, but I didn’t have any better suggestions And I wanted as best for you The both of you”

“Daddy?”

“I never wanted Calla to know she wasn’t mine”

The air is stolen fros My head spins “Not yours?”

“Youraround one another There were no definite coht’ve considered sharing her if it wasn’t him”

I know the way things work, wo isn’t uncoust in his voice tellsabout the man

“Who’s him, Dad?”

“Battle”

My jaw drops